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Date:      Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:06:09 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Michael Gabriel <mdgabriel@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stumped at install
Message-ID:  <19980830160609.A606@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980830055904.28307.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Michael Gabriel on Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 10:59:03PM -0700
References:  <19980830055904.28307.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Saturday, 29 August 1998 at 22:59:03 -0700, Michael Gabriel wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> I have recently acquired a copy of Freebsd 2.26.  Only to be
> disappointed and frustrated with the install.  I have a cdrom and plenty
> of disk space.  When cued to alloted a certain amount of memory space
> (minimum being as yous mention 20M) I'm at a loss as to "set" the
> specifics.  (ie. / , swap/ var)  as required.  It seems a hassle and I
> don't want it to be so.  Can you help.

Sure.  Let the install do it for you.  But 20 MB is far too little;
you'd need at least 200 to make a useful installation.  Under 500 MB
you probably *do* want to divide the disk yourself.  For a small
installation, take one file system (/) and as much swap space as you
can spare.  Probably 100 MB is adequate.  For more details, see "The
Complete FreeBSD", second edition
(http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm).

Greg
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